SAN FRANCISCO — The Pac-12 is pushing up negotiations for its subsequent media rights agreements within the wake of the choice by UCLA and USC to depart for the Large Ten.
The Pac-12 introduced its board of administrators licensed negotiations following a gathering Tuesday morning.
The convention’s present media rights deal expires in 2024, however the Pac-12 accelerated the timeline for negotiations for the subsequent one with two of its marquee packages headed out the door.
UCLA and USC introduced final Thursday that they’re leaving the convention for the Large Ten in 2024, knocking the Pac-12 out of the nation’s second-largest media market.
The Pac-12 already had the bottom distribution quantity amongst Energy 5 faculties, paying its member establishments $19.8 million in 2021, and shedding the 2 Southern California faculties would probably drop that quantity.